Word: strife
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...surprises in the editorials. ... Be frugal with experts. . . . Give a columnist his say-so. . . . Don't be too sparing of people who try to use the paper. . . . Better reporting on the sports pages. . . . Profanity . . . would be quoted as spoken or not at all. . . . There should be more strife between the rags. . . . The bosses ought to tell daily book reviewers to make one enemy a week, taking a punch in the nose if necessary...
...been having trouble with both Capital's Gignoux and Leon Jouhaux, leader of some 5,000,000 French trade unionists, was denounced by Comrade Arthur Ramette, Communist leader. "If you want your liberty,-I will give it to you!" cried the Premier, weary after weeks of strife. "I will not let the Communists spit in my face...
...sitting on a powder-keg. The President called in quick succession Radical Socialist Georges Bonnet, Socialist Leon Blum-both of whom quickly failed to form a Cabinet. A valiant attempt was made to arrange a "National Government" in which Right & Left would collaborate to spare France possible armed strife. The franc meanwhile sank on international exchange to its lowest in eleven years...
...Even the most reactionary Englishman does not look with friendliness at the prospect of a Nazi or Fascist Spain," he declared, when questioned about the strife in the land of the bull-fights. He stressed the precariousness of the position of England's Gibraltar in the present crisis...
...break through their lines were persons with parliamentary immunity. The cracked crowns of the deputies were to be investigated by Parliament committee, but Adolf Hitler's press was screaming with such rage at latest reports that Eduard Benes had need of all his proverbial adroitness to keep major strife from erupting in Czechoslovakia...